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Lawsuit filed against Taco Bell because there isn't enough beef in their tacos
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| ziptnf |
*cue hilarious innuendos*
| quote: | "Where's the beef?" Wendy's restaurants once famously asked through its advertising, a swipe at its competitors' burgers.
The same question is now being asked by a California woman regarding Taco Bell's beef products, which she claims contain very little meat. So little, in fact, that she's brought a false-advertising lawsuit against the huge fast-food chain.
The class-action suit, which does not ask for money, objects to Taco Bell calling its products "seasoned ground beef or seasoned beef, when in fact a substantial amount of the filling contains substances other than beef."
It says Taco Bell's ground beef is made of such components as water, isolated oat product, wheat oats, soy lecithin, maltodextrin, anti-dusting agent, autolyzed yeast extract, modified corn starch and sodium phosphate, as well as some beef and seasonings.
Just 35 percent of the taco filling was a solid, and just 15 percent overall was protein, said attorney W. Daniel "Dee" Miles III of the Montgomery, Ala., law firm Beasley Allen, which filed the suit.
"Taco Bell's definition of 'seasoned beef' does not conform to consumers' reasonable expectation or ordinary meaning of seasoned beef, which is beef and seasonings," the suit says. Beef is the "flesh of cattle," according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
"You can't call it beef by definition," Miles said. "It's junk. I wouldn't eat it."
Taco Bell, a unit of Yum Brands Inc., did not immediately return a request for comment.
But it told Alabama television station WSFA-TV in a prepared statement: "Taco Bell prides itself on serving high quality Mexican inspired food with great value. We're happy that the millions of customers we serve every week agree. We deny our advertising is misleading in any way and we intend to vigorously defend the suit."
For many menu choices, customers are given the choice of chicken, beef or carne asada steak as fillings for their Taco Bell products, such as burritos, Gorditas and Chalupas.
"The 'chicken' and 'carne asada steak' served by Taco Bell is, in fact, chicken and carne asada steak. The 'seasoned beef,' however, is not beef," the suit contends.
Apparently, the industry — and Taco Bell internally — calls the substance "taco meat filling," avoiding the word "beef," according to the suit.
However, even that term is supposed to be used for products that are at least 40 percent beef. Taco Bell's taco filling falls short of that definition too, Miles said.
The suit was filed Jan. 19 in federal court on behalf of Amanda Obney of California. |
Apparently the tacos at Taco Bell fall 5% short of the FDA mandated beef requirements. Poor, poor Americans.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationw...0,3088351.story |
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| Joss Weatherby |
Rose used to give me cause I thought Taco Bell was disgusting.
Exactly. |
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| Renzo |
| I'm surprised it's not 0% beef, really. |
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| jpisani |
| Hopefully this hurts their image and they have to lower prices to lure people back. I eat Taco Bell 3-4 times a week, I know its not high quality, but its in delicious. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| Wheat, soy, and oat? Hell, if they eliminated the beef altogether, Taco Bell would be vegan-friendly. |
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| WittyHandle |
| That list of ingredients looks more appetizing than the alternative of ground cow anus and uterus. |
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| ziptnf |
| quote: | Originally posted by jpisani
Hopefully this hurts their image and they have to lower prices to lure people back. I eat Taco Bell 3-4 times a week, I know its not high quality, but its in delicious. |
LOL
$0.89 is breaking the bank for you, there, buddy?
Oh, and eating there 3-4 times a week is disgusting. Get your head examined. |
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| jester |
| God bless America. How hard is it for someone to go to the grocery store or butcher and buy meat?! |
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| djnitride |
| quote: | Originally posted by jester
God bless America. How hard is it for someone to go to the grocery store or butcher and buy meat?! |
The worst part about america is the ratio of fast food to grocery stores and quality places to eat.
Fast food is ing sick, ty, processed food no matter how you look at it. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| quote: | Originally posted by jester
God bless America. How hard is it for someone to go to the grocery store or butcher and buy meat?! |
Well unfortunately, it's more expensive and obviously time-consuming to go to the grocer over fast food. No a home-prepared meal is better, but let's break down a taco-dinner, for example:
-1/2lb. of ground beef = $2.00
-1 tomato = $0.50
-1 onion = $0.50
-1 tub of sour cream = $2.00
-A dozen taco shells = $3.00
-1/2 lb.shredded cheese= $4.00
And that's being rather conservative, buying the cheap ingredients. A dozen taco-supreme equivalents will cost you about $12, or an average $1 per taco. And you have to cook it yourself. And you have to go to the grocery store. Tacos at Taco Bell are about $0.89 each, and you get them immediately. You don't even have to get out of your car.
Of course there are significant disadvantages including the nutritional value of choosing fast food, the fact that you cannot space them out to feed yourself for several days (unless you keep going back to Taco Bell.. ugh), the fact that making tacos on your own simply tastes better, but fast food is (sadly) more efficient in general.
Now this is probably going to stir something, but isn't intelligence often gauged by the efficiency in which you accomplish particular goals? If it takes a rat 10 minutes to get through a maze to the cheese in the center, and another rat only 5 minutes to navigate to the cheese, which would you deem as more intelligent? The one who was better at choosing the options which eased its progress, no? Now of course there are some major exceptions between this example and Americans choosing fast food, but they are all mostly long-term consequences, something our species has never been particularly apt at, considering our acuity in assessing these after the facts present themselves, time and again. It's not an American thing to choose convenience; it's simply an American trend to establish an immense infrastructure that feeds its advantage from the long-term consequences of expedited provision |
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| jad |
| quote: | Originally posted by ziptnf
Apparently the tacos at Taco Bell fall 5% short of the FDA mandated beef requirements. Poor, poor Americans. |
That's some nasty . I tried Taco Bell once around ten years ago and swore it off ever since. |
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| bas |
| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
Wheat, soy, and oat? Hell, if they eliminated the beef altogether, Taco Bell would be vegan-friendly. |
Vegetarian friendly really, I don't think some of this stuff qualifies as vegan friendly:
| quote: | | Beef, water, isolated oat product, salt, chili pepper, onion powder, tomato powder, oats (wheat), soy lecithin, sugar, spices, maltodextrin (a polysaccharide that is absorbed as glucose), soybean oil (anti-dusting agent), garlic powder, autolyzed yeast extract, citric acid, caramel color, cocoa powder, silicon dioxide (anti-caking agent), natural flavors, yeast, modified corn starch, natural smoke flavor, salt, sodium phosphate, less than 2% of beef broth, potassium phosphate, and potassium lactate. |
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